Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week at Newark Airport the Department of Commerce gave to air transport a device on which it had been at work for five years, to overcome the blind landing hazard. It consists of 1) a runway localizing beacon and 2) a radio beam along which the plane may glide to a three-point landing...
...different frequency. Presently his earphones and instrument dial picked up beacon signals again. These came from the runway beacon, which is simply a miniature of the big airway beacon. They told him he was headed straight for the length of the run-way.* Here the ingenious ''landing beam" began to work. Crossing the vertical needle on the beacon dial is a horizontal needle which swings up & down. If the plane is too high for its proper glide the needle swings up; if the plane is too low, down goes the needle. Pilot Kinney...
Federal Reserve. Although to many last week the U. S. banking structure seemed ready to fall on their heads, there was one big beam that was still as sound as the day it was hewn-the Federal Reserve System. It stood last week as it has throughout the Depression, in an impregnable position. It pumped out $215,000,000 in credit, it saw the money in circulation rise to the highest point in a decade as fear of runs made bankers fill their tills with cash and fear of failure sent depositors scurrying to the tills. It saw its gold...
...Michigan's Ralph L. Belknap is in charge, with four able men helping. Feb. 3, according to a message relayed last week by wireless, the five proceeded out of their snug shack, faced due south, and for the first time in two months watched a squint of sun beam briefly over the mountains...
Most magnificent was the square (225 x 225 ft.) "Hall of 100 Columns." Artaxerxes completed this, Dr. Herzfeld discovered six months ago. Atop each fluted column was a pair of carved bulls athwart which lay a huge cedar ceiling beam. Windows and niches broke up the long walls; painted carvings enlivened them. Here came satraps, courtiers and tributaries for homage to the curled & perfumed King of Kings. Here probably lived Esther, Queen of Xerxes whom the Old Testament calls Ahasuerus. Here came all-conquering Alexander the Great who, at the urging of one of his women, it is told...